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10 Dinars
| Issuer | National Bank of Iraq |
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| Year | 1950 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of young King Faisal II at right, rendered in intaglio against a finely guilloche-patterned ground in purple and green tones. Arabic inscriptions at centre include the denomination and bank title, with the National Bank of Iraq legend at top in Arabic script. The note number and series letter appear at lower left within an ornate border frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF IRAQ TEN DINARS 10 Dinars |
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Iraq's 1950 currency law reorganized the monetary system and transferred note-issuing authority from the British-controlled Iraq Currency Board to the newly established National Bank of Iraq — this note belongs to that first independent emission. Bradbury Wilkinson in New Malden handled the production, as they did for a substantial share of British colonial and post-colonial currency work throughout the mid-twentieth century.
The watermark is the sole security provision, which was unremarkable for the period but left the series relatively vulnerable once political instability made counterfeiting a practical concern in later decades.